Yes, absolutely. We were also told EMC was in talks about more public sector engagment in the near future, with an announcement on the horizon.
Likewise, if you break it down to the sub-divisions of Government, health we are intimate to, criminal justice we are intimate to and Government enablement to help the citizen in an environment of credit crunch/debt reduction/everything else [we are part of].
Any final thoughts around EMC World 2011?
This big data stuff? It is real. Cloud went beyond hype and people are actually doing cloud today. This whole big data stuff is absolutely there.
We are in the industry, we are championing it and then you come out to a bunch of customers and walk out and think, oh my lord.
The first thing I used to sell was a 16kb memory board, which we used to drive round in our cars and install ourselves. Now, all of our enterprise sales people will be talking about multiple petabytes and the terminology starts to get a bit out there.
The first petabyte system we sold was in 2005. Now, we will commonly go out and sell multiple petabytes to most larger accounts and the emphasis on getting the benefit from big data is absolutely there.
For all the news from EMC World 2011, check out our round-up here.
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SAS leans on synthetic data and digital twins to support business data demandNews SAS has announced new synthetic data capabilities and support for digital twins in a bid to equip enterprises with concrete platforms for data-driven decision making.
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SAS wants its AI agents to supercharge workers, not replace themSAS has announced a new agentic AI service aimed at helping enterprises deploy agents alongside domain-specific AI models.
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Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 reviewReviews A versatile, low-profile Xeon Scalable rack server with a big heart
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Businesses must pay greater attention to third-party riskNews Roles and responsibilities must be agreed on now to avoid blindspots and recriminations
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EMC reveals quest to modernise the datacentre at EMC World 2016News IT must get most out of existing investments while upgrading, says EMC
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EMC open sources more storage softwareNews RackHD project aims to make managing storage much easier
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EMC makes software-defined ViPR open sourceNews Project CoprHD is being released to the dev community via GitHub
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Software-defined storage could lose your data, warns HDSNews Hitachi Connect 2015: Why you should be wary of deploying commodity hardware
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EMC takes aim at Big Data analytics with latest solutionNews The new solution offers sophisticated storage, analysis and insight on key data to aid faster decision making
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NHS in "jeopardy" unless patient data access improvesNews NHS England's Tim Kelsey says more needs to be done to make access and sharing of patient data easier
